Lives in the Yiddish
TheatreSHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN
THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"1931-1969

Betty
Gertner

G. was born on 26 June 1904
in Yablonitsa, Karpathian Galicia. Her father was a
footwear merchant. She completed a birger
(citizen)- and a trade school in Vienna, wherein the
family moved to. Performing in the "Arbeter fareyn" with
declamations, G. became acquainted with actor Preys, who
led her into the "Freyer yidisher folks-bine", where she
performed as "Rivkele" in Asch's "Gott fun nekome (God
of Vengeance)", and she acted in that troupe for three
years in Austria and Rumania.

After becoming acquainted
with Sidney Goldin, with whom she married, G.
participated in Vienna in the film "Yizkor" by Sackler,
came with her husband to America, was filmed in the
title role in "East Side Sadie", and traveled back to
Vienna, where she acts in Yiddish theatre.